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Homework #9

After reading the article How a Search Engine Works i was surprised to see how many steps it  actually takes to create a search engine. Yahoo, Google and Bing which are just some of the search engines out there make everything so easy for us. Especially now when they track the things we search and give us search results that they believe is what we are looking for. Although sometimes we still spend long hours trying to find what we are really looking for, for the most part they are pretty spot on with the results they give us. But the result you get on the internet are not always and in detail as the ones in the books.

Homework #9 – Charles Baculima-Castillo

The first reaction I had when I read Liddy’s article about search engines was that I was mind blown. I had an idea that how a search engine works would be complicated but I had no idea that there were so many steps revolving around this process. One aspect that I greatly wanted to touch on was the “stop words”. Stop words is a step that pretty much eliminates and negates common words like “the” and “is”. This step is really important because without this, someone can have a much harder time to search what they really want because these words would cause interference.